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Observing & Measuring the In-rush Current of a Power Supply, or Why Rectifier Diodes Sometimes Go Poof By: Walter Banzhaf P.E. Professor of Engineering Technology University of Hartford Ward College of Technology Purpose: A half-wave rectifier is often used as a power supply in inexpensive, low-power circuits. Its output is unregulated DC with a quasi-sawtooth ripple voltage proportional to the load current. The single diode can be damaged by excessive reverse voltage, often due to a transient on the power line, or it can be damaged by a large in-rush current at the time of turn-on. A diode can fail in two ways: becoming an open circuit (symptoms are clear: the circuit goes dead) and becoming a short circuit (symptoms MAY be clear: the circuit gives off smoke, the filter capacitor gets hot and may explode, the transformer primary acts as a fuse and becomes an open, or a fuse blows). Equipment: 1) Agilent 54600 - Series Oscilloscope Circuit Explanation: This experiment uses a variable autotransformer (Variac) feeding a 120V/12V-0-12V stepdown power transformer in a closed metal box. Two secondary terminals (12V RMS) are connected to a breadboard with the circuit. There is a 0.2ohm current-sensing resistor in series with the return wire to the transformer; this allows the diode current to be measured. By putting the oscilloscope in single-shot mode, and by triggering on the rise of voltage on Channel 2, the voltage across the sensing resistor (which is proportional to diode current) can be captured when the switch feeding the transformer primary is first thrown. Figure 1 To observe the steady-state DC output voltage with its ripple, Channel 1 is connected to the top of the load resistor and the oscilloscope is used in a conventional repetitively-triggered mode. The automatic measurement capabilities of the oscilloscope can be used to quantify the peak, average and RMS values of an unfiltered rectifier. Procedure A - Observing And Measuring Peak Diode Current After Turn-on: 1 1) Refer to the information in Figure 2 for oscilloscope control settings, and adjust your oscilloscope accordingly. 2) Rotate the transformer box output control fully clockwise (maximum, (or approximately equal to)13 VRMS). Turn on the transformer output by throwing the toggle switch up. The sweep of the oscilloscope should be triggered once, and a new trace recorded (see Figure 2 for a typical display). You will have to press the Run hardkey after each trigger to "arm" the sweep again. 3) Press the Stop hardkey, then press the Display hardkey followed by the Vectors On softkey. Vectors On essentially "connects the dots", giving a better display of the trace for Channel 2. Notable is the large amplitude of the first current pulse, due to the filter capacitor being uncharged initially. The first current pulse must bring the capacitor up from 0 V to very near full voltage (about 18 V), while subsequent pulses must only recharge the capacitor to replenish the charge that was drained out when the output voltage drooped (creating ripple voltage) during the prior 16.7 ms period of the 60 Hz supply voltage. In Figure 2, the peak current is 1.344 V/0.2 ohm = 6.72 A, while in steady-state operation (the 6th pulse) the peak current has dropped to 0.225 V/0.2 ohm = 1.125 A. Procedure B - Observing And Measuring DC Output Voltage And PP Ripple Voltage: 1) Keep the circuit and the probe locations as they were in procedure A. Change the oscilloscope settings as indicated in Figure 3. The Average softkey, under the Display hardkey menu, was used here to remove some noise on both traces. 2) See Figure 3. Measure the average (DC value) and the peak-peak (ripple) voltage of Channel 1. Channel 2 shows the peak current pulses in steady state are 210.9 mV/0.2 ohm = 1.05 mA. 3) In Figure 4, the Channel 1 V/Div has been decreased to expand the ripple voltage display. With the 220 ohm as the load, the p-p ripple is just over 2 div, or 1 Vpp. This trace is saved to memory 1 using the Trace hardkey and the Save to Mem1 softkey. Then, a second load resistor (270 ohm) is placed parallel with the 220 ohm; the lower trace shows that the average value has dropped and the ripple voltage has increased (to 1.937 Vpp). Measure the parameters indicated in the table below, for your circuit with two different load conditions. Load Average (DC) Load Voltage (V) Ripple Voltage (Vpp) 220 ohm 220 ohm 270 ohm Procedure C - Automatic Measurement Of Peak-peak, Average And Rms Voltage: 2 1) Turn down the supply voltage to 0 V. Change the circuit by removing the filter capacitor, and keep the probe locations as they were in procedures A & B. Set the supply voltage for maximum output. Change the oscilloscope settings as indicated in Figure 5. 2) Measure the peak-peak voltage (which equals the maximum voltage, since Vmin = 0 V), the average (or DC value of) voltage, and the RMS voltage for your unfiltered rectifier. Peak – peak Voltage 3 Average Voltage RMS Voltage 4 5